Anthony Levandowski on lessons learned at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI
Why Hacker News recommends it
Cited as the source of Levandowski's remark agreeing with Elon Musk that lidar is a crutch.
What it is
A TechCrunch interview with Anthony Levandowski about his new startup Pronto.ai and autonomous vehicles, after the Uber and Waymo lawsuit. He discusses lessons learned and the role of lidar.
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What Hacker News said
Cites toomuchtodo · 2019-05 · on “Musk Can’t Dodge Tesla Cash Woes Any Longer”
Anthony Levandowski of Waymo LIDAR fame has said he now agrees with Elon Musk ("a wiser person than me") that LIDAR is a crutch. [this video]
Cites sabertoothed · 2019-08 · on “Elon Musk: “Anyone relying on Lidar is doomed.” Experts: Maybe not”
You seem very angry for some reason that I do not understand. Your emotional response is not backed up by facts. Hotz can certainly be considered an expert as founder and president of commai.ai. Whether he is a loudmouth or not is less relevant. The remark by Levandowski can be found here: [this video] Whether these guys are ethical etc. is not of interest for this question. > Elon really is alone in claiming that lidar isn’t needed for self-driving. No, precisely not.
Cites toomuchtodo · 2020-05 · on “GM self-driving tech unit Cruise laying off about 8% of staff”
[LINK] [this video] > Anthony Levandowski, former Google/Waymo engineer, now backtracks on lidar and says, ”Elon is right.”
Cites xedeon · 2021-09 · on “New Tesla Roadster delayed again, now shooting for 2023”
Just FYI, many other high-level experts on this space like Anthony Levandowski who actually worked with Sebastian Thrun after meeting him at the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. Said the same thing. There's a reason why I asked if you could share your work. Because those two individuals are clearly at the top of their field. If your thesis is correct, then it's easily worth 100+M if not 1B+ USD in value. It's easy to be hyper critical, compared to actually being in the trenches trying to solve these hard problems. [this video]